Jhoan Durán’s 100-mph Splinker: How One Dominican Right Arm Just Rebalanced Global Soft Power
The Ballad of Jhoan Durán: How One Right Arm Became a Geopolitical Weapon Somewhere in the bowels of Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo, a radar-gun operator once clocked a 16-year-old at 97 mph and quietly crossed himself. That teenager—Jhoan Durán—has since turned that teenage lightning bolt into a full-scale diplomatic crisis for opposing hitters, a…